lilatree • 1 day ago

What about projects where secrecy matters? How do hedge funds use these? Are you comfortable feeding the secret sauce to Cursor?

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londons_explore • 1 day ago

Code is nowhere near as valuable as most people imagine....

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lopatin • 1 day ago

I'd day that hedge funds and quant trading firms are an exception to this rule. If you get access to their model training code, order execution code, and especially their trading strategies, then that is literally valuable since you'd be able to replicate their success.

This is unlike most other companies, say Spotify, where if you get access to their source, there's still not much that you can do with it.

owebmaster • 4 hours ago

Especially if it can be generated with a prompt.

shahzaibmushtaq • 1 day ago

No, code becomes less valuable with the passage of time.

latenightcoding • 1 day ago

It is in some projects, OP gave a good example: hedge funds.

kristopolous • 1 day ago

self hosting via litellm or olama isn't as hard as you think. If you have company kind of money it shouldn't be a problem.